To Cay. Bird list- another opinion: see below. Well, this is cool! I always have Pileated WPs here in my Lansing woods & I've never seen that much shredding. The tree I saw was shredded from the ground up to about 4'. On one side. I was hot & tired by then, so I didn't look around too much, so I didn't see if pieces were flung far away. Also, I didn't take a photo w my phone. Thanks for another opinion. DS
Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Laurie Roe <roel...@gmail.com> wrote: > <IMG_1703.JPG>Hi Donna, I sent this photo to Linda Spielman of tracking fame. > She thought this was Pileated work..just for reference. I enclose her remarks > too in bold here. Laurie Roe. > ... but I'm still voting for birds rather than bears. An important bit of > information would be the height of the debarking on the standing tree--do you > have a sense of that? If it's more than 6 or 7 feet above ground level, it > couldn't have been a bear. I have my doubts that the shredding has anything > to do with bedding material, because leaves are so abundant, and most of the > shredded stuff is still on the ground. And when did you find the tree? It's a > bit early for bears to be denning in our area. Woodpeckers are completely > capable of doing everything I see in the photo, both the debarking of the > tree and the shredding on the ground. The chips scattered by birds are > generally pretty close to the source, as they are in the photo, whereas bears > often throw big chunks many feet away from the log they came from. > > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Donna Scott <dls...@me.com> wrote: >> This is rather off-topic (?), but I thought people would want to know that I >> found evidence of recent bear activity near the blue trail in >> Lindsay-Parsons preserve Saturday, June 22. Walking east of Celia's Cup, >> hoping a Worm Eating Warbler might appear, I found a medium-sized tree >> scratched all apart on one side to a height of 3-4 ' with all the shavings >> piled at the bottom. Way too much destruction for a Pileated WP. >> It was freshly done & bear was probably eating grubs & ants. I remember >> reading a recent Ith. J. article about a bear in someone's yard south of >> Ithaca, so maybe he or another is around LPP now. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> Donna Scott >> -- >> >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html >> 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >> 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html >> >> Please submit your observations to eBird: >> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >> -- > > > > -- > "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass > springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of > nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..." > Eleanor Duse -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
